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Poems for the Sea.
Do any of them ever think
What blasts the seamen bore,
To bring their mace and nutmegs home
From a far tropic shore?
Blow high, blow low, 'tis all the same,
Hot suns or wintry weather,
For with our sailor's knot we bind
Earth's utmost coasts together:
Then do us justice, landsmen dear,
For where's the need to doubt us?
Since in your inmost hearts you know
You cannot do without us.
